GOP warned to embrace technology or face 'suicide'
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/POLITICS/12/12/gop.technology/art.blackwell.facebook.jpg caption="Ken Blackwell and other candidates for the GOP chairmanship have used Facebook to reach supporters."] (CNN) - When Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis decided to throw his hat in the ring to head the Republican Party, he announced his intentions on an unlikely forum: Twitter.
Not too long ago, the social networking Web site most popular among teenagers and 20-somethings was probably the last place you would expect to find a candidate for the Republican National Committee chairmanship.
But then Barack Obama's presidential campaign appeared to revolutionize the way technology could be integrated into every facet of a campaign - from fundraising to media outreach to voter mobilization.
The result was a Democratic Party that outpaced its rival in nearly every measure - in the process revealing how detrimental the GOP's apparent lack of tech fluency proved to be on Election Day.
The Republican Party is playing catch-up, hoping to compete with Democrats in the next two pivotal election cycles.
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The GOP is history, they are stuck in the world of Neo-Con. America has other plans.
No, even if you do that not going to work for me!!
Don't want Gop emails!!
Welcome to the 21st century. The McCain's and others that can't even spell or pronounce internet are left in the dust. ha ha ha ha ha
GOP got a smackdown
Technology? We don't need no stinking technology. We have Jesus on our side.
Good Idea – we need the ideas out where everyone can see them and maybe – just maybe – we will get some honest to goodness Government "for the people – by the people"
All the technology and social networking in the world isn't going to change the fact that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt and wrong on every major issue facing America.
"GOP warned to embrace technology or face 'suicide'"
LOL!!! And don't forget cell phones, LOL!!!
Man GOP, wow!! I mean, wow!
and why do you have him up here in facebook? this is an old party of majority white heads and will never get my vote!
Suicide is much suited for GOP .... It can't change and will not change ... That's what 'conservatism' mean for most GOPers, .... back to 1700's.
STOP THE REPUBLICAN NEO CON'S FROM DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY MORE!!!
well first the GOP should embrace science, then worry about technology
The elephant is dead already.
NEVER ELECT ANOTHER REPUBLICAN IN 100 YEARS
LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO THE ECONOMY
SCREW THEM.....LOST MY VOTE
I CONVERTED LAST MONTH......
DEM ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2009-2070
The GOP already committed political suicide with yesterday's vote to kill the emergency auto loan and preserve some three million jobs.
A little too late...Obama taught the GOP about technology
Nothing new here–the GOP mindframe has always been behind the times.
If the GOP wants to compete, they'd darn well stop playing chicken with the car makers. This thing makes me sick-throw money at banks with no strings, and make the autoworkers grovel and take cuts putting them BELOW the income levels of their fellow workers down south, and then refuse to help them at all anyway. Yup, the GOP sure knows how to win friends and influence people...to keep voting Democratic! And keep supporting those Honda plants...so glad the senators from Georgia and Kentucky can think beyond their own backyards and realize that in Michigan and Ohio, we are on the verge of Depression. Nice of them to care. And when the suppliers in these states go under, just where are your auto companies going to get parts? This is bigger than Honda in Kentucky and Toyota in Alabama. We will remember!
I already get enough unsolicited crap from them.
Thanks for a great laugh
Ken Blackwell was Ohio's nightmare, and he can be America's too. The guy may be online but he's a medieval mind.
Sweet....we're all set fellow Dems. Old, fat, rich, aristocratic white guys don't know how to use computers.
Uh Paul, I would not be throwing stonesat the GOP right now if I were you. It's your friends, the Democrat party that is home to the senate seat pedaling Governor and one or more guilty parties in the President -Elect's transition team that has the ethics problems right now. . With names like Spitzer , Kilpatrick, and Blago you have no room to call anyone intellectually bankrupt. You dems have plenty of idiots to go around. Nice try though.
Technology spreading the same worn-out, outdated, out-of-touch ideas and politics will be just more of the same, only the e-version. Give an unskilled surgeon a new scalpel and s/he'll still be unskilled and able to do harm not good.
Dear Republicans:
PLEASE CHOOSE SUICIDE. You have so much blood on your hands, its about time the blood was your own. Besides, you've been drinking the cool aid forever. Make the world a better place. You won't be missed!